1879.] 'Ethnological Queries. 201 
I. Do any of the Indian tribes contract, elongate, or otherwise de¬ 
form the heads of their children ? 
II. Have any elongated or small skulls (UliJcrocephalen) been found 
in India as in the tumuli of the Crimea, Peru, Germany, France, &c. ? 
III. Are imbecile persons, or those with small heads (Milcrocephalen) 
regarded as holy in any part of India ? 
IV. Is any green stone, Nephrite, (Eadeit Wile) met with in India, 
and for what purpose is it used ? 
Y. Is the hammer (Thorhammer ) or axe venerated any where in In¬ 
dia ? 
YI. Have any representations been found on any of the old sculp¬ 
tures of fire being obtained by wood friction, and do any of the wild tribes 
in India employ this means in the present day. 
The Philological Secretaby read a letter from Lieut.-Col. 
G. E. Fryer, Tavoy, forwarding copies of two small Buddhist Inscrip¬ 
tions. 
“ Having come across the enclosed among some of my old papers, I 
forward them to you in the hope that their publication may prove 
interesting to the members of the Society. They are copies of two inscrip¬ 
tions found in the Sandwe district, Arakan Division, British Burma. 
“ The. first inscription (A, plate VII) consists of two pieces of 
stone brought to me by a cultivator who stated he found them while 
j>loughing at the base of a low range of hills about three or four miles 
distant from the town of Sandwe. I visited the spot, but could dis¬ 
cover no trace of any building in the neighbourhood. Pratapa Chandra 
Ghosha, formerly Assistant Secretary of the Society, thus deciphered the 
characters: 
ye dharma hetu pra- 
-bhava hetum tesham tatha fubha 
tesham Tathagata hyava- 
-vat evam vadi Maka Sramana. 
“ The second inscription (B, plate VII) is on a flat stone (nearly 7 
inches long by 5 i broad and 1 inch thick), which was found in January 
1872 in the cavity of a hill close to the village of Nga lun maw, 
in the Kwelu circle, Sandwe district. I visited the spot and found the 
cavity filled with sand. 
“ In a note to me, dated 22nd July, 1875, Dr. Rajendralala Mitra wrote, 
‘ The reading of A is quite correct, but I am not prepared to say positive- 
